Acer will be unveiling four new gizmos at IFA 2015, all powered by Microsoft's Windows 10 mobile.

If the rumours are true then Acer is ready to get behind Microsoft's Windows 10 Mobile OS. Other than the rumour there is very little to go on.

It might be the start of a new generation of phones moving away from Android. After all it is not that expensive and works better with PCs in a corporate environment.

Acer has been playing around with the Windows Phone ecosystem by launching the new low-end Liquid M220.

At the time the Liquid launched, Acer said it would bring Windows 10 Mobile to its handsets, so launching a slew of new gear seems like a practical move.

This is odd as Redmond has cut back its mobile division, and is launching only a few Lumia shiny toys each year. The theory is that Microsoft wants other ODMs to fill the gap.

Yeah, Windows Phone has seen very little success, but the Windows 10 version might fare a bit better. Besides it is not as if it is worse than Android and besides it is never going to be that fragmented.

IFA 2015 is taking place this September in Berlin so we expect there will be all sorts of announcements coming from it.

The Silicon Valley giant is replacing Broadwell generation of 14nm processors with Skylake new architecture made at the same 14nm. Intel claims that you can get up to 10 to 20 percent in Single or Multithread performance. This sounds like a leap forward.

The GPU is updated from the Gen 8 with GT3e for Broadwell H and GT3 for Broadwell U to a new Gen 9 LP and GT4e for Skylake H and eDRAM for Skylake-U.

The Skylake graphics can be up to 50 percent faster in 3D gaming. Intel didn’t play fair on the measuring as it compared the new chip with its 45W GT4e GPU versions 28W GT3 graphics on Broadwell.

Skylake U has a TDP of 15W and is a dual core with lower clocks. Skylake H goes to 45W, has four cores and much higher performance.

We expect to see many of Skylake based notebooks in August and they all work well with Windows 10.

Microsoft is still going to press ahead with mobile despite cutting 7,800 jobs from the Nokia and hardware division, and an 80 per cent write off on the £4.6 billion Nokia deal.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella confirmed the release of a Lumia flagship device by the end of the year.

"Last week's announcement was not about any change to our vision and strategy, but for sure it was a change to our operating approach "I'm not going to launch a phone a day. I'm going to focus on a few phones that actually grab share that, in fact, showcase our uniqueness." said Nadella.

Nadella said that the new gear would not be Android or iOS mainstream competitors. Instead, Microsoft intends to sell a small amount as a proof-of-concept almost, showing what Windows 10 Mobile can do.

Microsoft intends to invest in the Windows 10 Mobile platform more heavily than Windows Phone 8, which received minimal updates over the four years.

The plan to launch universal apps and other cross-platform technologies will hopefully draw more customers to Windows 10 Mobile, even if Xbox or Windows 10 is the first platform for the consumer.

Analysts are hinting that Intel is not going to do well out of mobile chips and should probably give up trying.

Chipzilla has spent a fortune on getting into mobile after it dropped the ball at the beginning of the smartphone boom. But analysts are starting to warn that money is being wasted and indeed the sales of mobile chips for Intel is actually sinking.

Digitimes now says that 2015 will see just 10.8 million Intel-powered Android tablets down from 14.23 million shipped a year earlier.

Chipzilla is making money from Android handsets but only more than 10 million of which are expected to have Intel inside this year.

Over all this figure is tiny. It has been estimated that the world will make 230 million tablets and phablets this year and IDC thinks there will be 1.447 billion smartphones. So this means that Intel's cut is tiny.

What will save Intel are those two-in-one PC and tablet blends which will push Intel's overall mobile CPU sales up to 46 million a year. This is good, and means that Intel will probably continue to make money, it is just that it will not make it from tablets and smartphones.

One has to question what is Intel trying to do in those markets anyway? Tablets are dying and pretty soon will be as out of date as a tape based Walkman. Smartphones sales are expected to fall and any way the margins on those are pretty pointless. The two-in-ones are born from Intel's Core-M range which is rather natty and a much better focus for x86 anyway.

What appears to be keeping Intel interested in mobile is this stubborn belief in the Internet of Things which everyone is certain is going to be the next most important technology breakthrough.

However so far the only thing we have seen from this technology are gadgets like watches which have been greeted by a loud sounding yawn. It would be much better for Intel to walk away from the fiddly mobile stuff and focus on mobile office chips.

The Latvian presidency of the EU has reached a provisional deal with the European Parliament on new rules to end mobile phone roaming fees by mid-2017

Under the agreement, roaming surcharges in the European Union will be abolished as of 15 June.

Roaming providers will be able to apply a 'fair use policy' to prevent abusive use of roaming. This would include using roaming services for purposes other than periodic travel.

In otherwords you can't use your British Vodaphone SIM in Italy for years because the tariff is cheaper in the UK. Of course if the UK leaves the EU, then its mobile operators can do what they like and charge what they want.

Roaming fees will already go down on 30 April 2016, when the current retail caps will be replaced by a maximum surcharge of €0.05 per minute for calls, €0.02 for SMSs and €0.05 per megabyte for data.

Anrijs Mat?ss, the Latvian Minister for Transport said that this was a great success for the European Union and the Latvian presidency.

"The Latvian presidency has put a lot of effort into finalising the Telecom Single Market proposal - we revived the proposal from scratch and reached agreement. This would not have been possible without the commitment and constructive approach of the member states, the European Parliament and the European Commission".

It is still a way off yet.

The presidency will debrief member states' ambassadors on the outcome of the trilogue at the Permanent Representatives Committee (Coreper) on 30 June.

The agreed text will be presented for confirmation by member states under the Luxembourg presidency.

Dubbed the Ideacentre stick 300. It measures only 15 mm and is powered by an Intel Atom Processor Z3735F.It has 2Gb of memory , 32GB of storage and is designed for consumer usage in the home and on-the-go,.

In a statement Lenovo said that the pocket-sized compute stick is powerful enough for entertainment and web browsing, while affordable enough for existing PC owners to justify owning a second or third mobile PC option.

The plug and play technology turns any HDMI compatible TV or monitor into a fully functioning Windows-based PC. You need a 2.4GHz wireless keyboard and mouse of course because it does not run on telepathy.

It will initially ship with Windows 8.1 but will be available for a free upgrade to Windows 10 starting on July 29. Fully enabled with WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0, the ideacentre Stick 300 provides the connectivity you need to power up at any time.

Jun Ouyang, vice president and general manager, Worldwide Desktop and Visuals, Lenovo said that the company had looked at the computing needs of travellers, business people and families, and realized that a truly portable and affordable solution would be a significant benefit to users of all kinds.

"Our goal with the ideacentre Stick 300 is to give those users a sense of freedom and enhanced mobility, while packing a serious punch in a small device," he said.

The Lenovo ideacentre Stick 300 will be available on www.lenovo.com and will hit retail shelves starting in July.

A Canadian bloke was gunned down after he tracked his phone to where a thief had taken it using something like a "Find my Phone" app.

At this point it is not clear what the app Jeremy Cook used was, or what type of phone he had, but appears he thought that by showing up at the thieves' house he would get his phone back.

After leaving his phone in a taxi, Cook traced it to an address on Highbury Avenue and then he went to find it with a relative. When he arrived at the address, he was confronted by three young men in a car. It's not entirely clear what happened next, but police say that the vehicle began to drive away when Cook tried to get his phone back, at which point he grabbed on the driver's side door. Shots where then fired at him, and he ultimately died.

The car and phone have been recovered later, but Cook's attackers are still missing, with police looking for three men with ages between 18 and 21.

It is the first case of serious violence from someone tracking a lost smartphone online.

The Police said that while the app itself is a great tool. Nobody could ever predict that what occurred was going to occur in that case.

"But if you suspect there's any potential for violence at all, we certainly encourage people to contact police. We'd be more than happy to come out and investigate with the hopes of retrieving the phone," a Police spokesman said.

Facebook is rolling out a system called Place Tips which will allow businesses to push updates to a person's smartphone when they are near.

Quite why anyone would want to receive these while they are walking the dog or shopping for something else is anyone's guess, but to get retailers on board, Facebook is sending out free Bluetooth beacon devices to firms that request them.

One marketing expert told the BBC it is important the systems do not become "intrusive" but given that marketing experts championed spam as being useful we can take what they say with a grain of salt.

Facebook has been conducting a trial of Place Tips in New York City since the start of the year, where more than 100 businesses have taken part.

Fortunately it only works with Apple devices, which is another reason not to buy the expensive toys and means that those users partake of some of the karma of owning one. If it takes off then Facebook will roll it out to proper mobile devices so the fate of the world's shopping depends on Apple fanboys throwing their toys out of the pram over it.

Another upside is that Facebook is only trying it in the US so at the moment Europe will be safe from the blipping nuisance.

It works like this once a business, such as a coffee shop or restaurant, sets up a beacon, it can detect when a Facebook user is within a set distance.

The beacon can then send "fun, useful and relevant" information into the user's News Feed.

According to Facebook's explanation page, this information could include content posted by friends in the same place, as well as popular menu items and upcoming events.

It can be turned off so it probably will be. Facebook said that BBC that companies would not yet be able to use the service to advertise, but that this position may change in the future.